Re: Exim and IPv6 Help

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsdipv6@bsws.de>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:03:19AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >> 	RFC2765
> >Can't see anything there that prevents us from checking them?!
> 
> 	RFC2765 makes use of IPv4 mapped address (::ffff:10.0.0.1) on wire
> 	for communication between IPv6 clients and SIIT translator box. 
> 	therefore, if you want OpenBSD box to be usable within SIIT cloud,
> 	you need to accept IPvb6 native packets addressed to/from
> 	IPv4 mapped address (= you can't filter them).
> 
> 	IPv6 clients ----- SIIT translator ----- outside IPv4 box
> 		      (*)

If I'm not mistaken this only affects the SIIT translator. we can filter
before passing the packets to an AF_INET6 socket, can't we?

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